Some quick links for you.
The Pinky Show. Cats talking politics. Cats making sense of politics. They are so cute it hurts.
Sugar cubes used to be the “in thing”. Now it’s honey cubes.
Monk caught being human, looking at porn.
Guy wins jackpot at casino, employee unplugs machine just in time to save company 5.5 mil
A student group of Atheists at University of Texas, San Antonio, have started a campaign which allows people to trade their bibles for pornographic magazines, such as Playboy and Penthouse. Their logic being that the bible is a very negative force in world history and porn would be more beneficial. They came up with this campaign as a creative way to exercise their freedom of speech. Obviously religious groups on campus were less than pleased with the idea. There are similarities here to my previous article in which a local church tried to use less conventional methods to attract new people. However, what the atheist group is doing is a little different.
If you design web sites, write reports, or do presentations, you should probably take a look at the work of Edward Tufte. One of his best-known essays tells how your typical PowerPoint presentation can obscure information more than it helps illustrate.
So what do you do if you have a ton of numerical data and just two and a half minutes to present it? Well, if it’s data about the pron industry on the Internet, you could do something like this:
(Might be NSFW)
I don’t know Bernie Sanders. Nor do I know Rich Tarrant. I do know I’ve heard just about enough out of the latter’s mouthpieces and not nearly enough out of the former’s.
While watching a little of the tube last night, I caught a Tarrant campaign ad that jumped down Sanders’s throat for “…voting against [a] crackdown on child pornography…” It then flashed a real quick excerpt of some bill that Sanders voted against and included a Vermont housewife frowning and making like Sanders had voted to forcibly anally penetrate every little 13-year-old in Vermont.
Right then and there, something seemed a little wrong to me.
Holy Christ on a cracker!
The ultra fundies are at it again. Now they want to remove porn from hotel rooms.
“There’s porn in hotel rooms?” you say. No, not in the nightstand (there’s a Bible there) and no, you can’t get complimentary strippers.
They want to get rid of the porn that’s hidden deep inside the Idiot Box. The Boob Tube. The TV. That porn that you can’t get unless you turn on the TV, go through 10 menus, choose the right one and put in a PIN to get. The porn you get charged megabucks for.
From the article:“These are places that you take your family — these are respectable institutions,” said Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council. “Anything that brings porn into the mainstream is a concern. It just desensitizes people.”
